'As vivid as the Ten O'Clock News... fascinating, detailed, meticulously researched... tremendous' Daily Mail Charles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne on behalf of his exiled father ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16 April 1746, at Culloden, his 5,000-strong Jacobite army was decisively overpowered in under forty minutes. Its brutal repercussions, however, endured for months and years,...
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